Intel didn't mince words when it comes to the company's opinions of the new AMD server line in a presentation outlining the benefits of using the Intel line of server chips. It did a direct comparison between the two, and in one slide, it mentioned that the Epyc processor was 'inconsistent', and called it 'glued together'. Moreover, Intel noted that it required a lot of optimizations to get it to work effectively, comparing it to the rocky start AMD had with Ryzen on the desktop.

"So AMD's server platform will require optimizations as well because Ryzen did, for incomparably different workloads? History does inform the future, but not to the extent that Intel is putting it here to, certainly. Putting things in the same perspective, is Intel saying that their Xeon ecosystem sees gaming-specific optimizations?,"

AMD announced its line of Epyc processors last month. The range consists of chips between eight and 32 cores [up to 64 threads], all of which support eight channels of DDR4-2666 memory. Pricing was announced to start from $400.